Twitter is expected to bring in more than $1 billion in advertising revenue in 2014, according to a report. Two people “with knowledge of the matter,” who are apparently irked at some ana...
Before Lucas Buick cofounded Synthetic, the company that created popular iPhone app Hipstamatic, he was employed as a graphic designer at a trade magazine — a post, he says, he ultimately decid...
The Fancy, a Pinterest-like startup that wants you to shop what you save, updated its apps for iPhone and iPad devices Wednesday. The apps, which previously limited activity to browsing and collectin...
If your Busted Tees t-shirt isn’t screaming “I live and breathe the Internet”, you might want to accessorize. Meshu, a San Francisco-based startup, makes jewelry in the pattern of y...
Android owners rejoice: social newsreading app Flipboard is headed your way. The company opened up a private beta program for Android phones Wednesday. To sign up, head on over to flipboard.com/andro...
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After what appears to be a successful rollout period in the U.S., American Express cardmembers can now unlock and seamlessly redeem a variety of location-based offers from retailers in the UK. To par...
Amazon is making its Instant Video library available to Microsoft Xbox 360 devices, widening the pool of on-demand, streaming video content for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. Console owners can now brow...
Earlier this month, General Motors made headlines when it announced plans to pull its ads from Facebook because they were “ineffective.” But the story may be more complicated than that, a...
Pinterest may not allow advertisers on its platform yet, but that’s not stopping some third-party publishers from hosting campaigns on the rapidly growing social network. On Friday, Women’...
Facebook may be about to acquire facial recognition tool Face.com, according to multiple reports. Israeli business publication Calcalist, which has accurately leaked acquisitions of a number of Israe...
Yahoo has decided to discontinue production of Yahoo Livestand, a newsreading app for the iPad launched just six months ago. The news was announced in a post to Yahoo’s corporate blog on Friday...
Want to know when items you pin on Pinterest go on sale? Now you can — up to a point — thanks to a new feature launched this week at a site called Lyst. Lyst, a London-based startup, is a...
In an experimental move, The New Yorker is planning to release a short sequel to Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, through 140-character installments on...
Less than two months after announcing its plans to acquire photo app company Instagram for $1 billion, Facebook has released an iOS app that looks and functions almost identically to Instagram’...
Although magazine publishers have embraced mobile platforms, particularly the iPad, the web is still not all that important, executives at Conde Nast and Meredith Corp. indicated on stage at a paidCo...
ModCloth, an online retailer of affordable women’s clothing and accessories, has launched a private label collection made up mostly of designs submitted and voted upon by its Facebook community...
Target is expanding its partnership with Shopkick, a mobile couponing app that allows shoppers to collect and exchange points for rewards. Beginning Wednesday, shoppers equipped with Shopkick on thei...
Facebook’s initial public offering is off to a less than spectacular start, to put it generously. The stock closed at $31 on its third day Tuesday, down 18% from its initial offer price of $38,...
Facebook is testing a series of cosmetic changes to the top of users’ Timelines, the company has confirmed. Screenshots of the new design were posted on Talking Points Memo Tuesday morning. The...
After releasing a range of affordably priced accessories and fragrance products exclusively through its Facebook shop, Oscar de la Renta is now testing social media users’ appetites for more ex...
China is poised to become the biggest online marketplace in the world within the next few years, according to multiple estimates. Online retail generated $121 billion in sales in China last year, up ...
UPDATE: Rakuten has confirmed that it has led a $100 million round of investment in Pinterest. Of the investment, Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani says, “While some may see e-commerce as a straightforwar...
Google is in discussions to acquire Meebo for as much as $100 million, sources have told the often-reliable AllThingsD. Meebo was founded in 2005 as a messaging app for the browser, a product that st...
“How do we observe the future?” So began the presentation of Duane Bray, partner and head of IDEO’s global digital business, at our Mashable Connect conference in Orlando, Fla., las...
The number of online news consumers has grown consistently over the past half-decade, yet not every publication has gotten the same lift as The Atlantic, whose web audience has catapulted from approx...
The media, forever a navel-gazing industry, worked itself into a fever earlier this week after evidence emerged that usage of Facebook’s social reader apps is declining. In an article designed ...
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